Blower resistor died. I bypassed it and the fan came alive. Autozone put an order for a new one - $65, what a ripp-off! Should be here on Wednesday.
Btw, I opened up that resistor (4 clips) and what happened is there is a "solder" type fuse there - basically when it gets too hot, the stuff mets and two contacts spring away and break connection. The casing states 'Do not repair" (no kidding, since they charge 65 bucks for that piece of crap) but I am wondering if I can just solder it back on :-) Well, I placed an order anyways, so maybe as a temporary use...
UPDATE: So just to check, I soldered the resistor back - I just heated it up with an gun and held the contacts together. Put it back, worked like a charm... initially... then I noticed that the blower is slowing down and finally stopped again. So I was thinking, the resistor got hot again and de-fused. Opened it up, nope, still holding up. So I am thinking the blower motor actually was dying (that's why it probably was getting hot in the first place) which makes sense since I had water getting in there apparently. So I guess what I really need to get is a new blower motor, not the resistor. I canceled my order, since the same would happen with a new resistor - glad I checked.
Triathlete By blower relay, do you mean the resistor that sits on the left from the blower motor? Or is there something else?
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